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This side trip is dedicated to a bit of Rhode Island urban legend. The grave or Mercy Brown, also known as "Vampire's grave" at least amoung my peers back in the 1990's.

This young woman was of the unfortunate members of the Brown family to died of a mystery illness (tuberculosis) in the 1890's. After both her mother and sister died and she died her brother also became sick. The people of Exeter and her father were convinced, after confirming the other ladies were normal dead people, that she must have been a vampire because her corpse was not decomposing as expected. Worth noting however, that since she died in winter and her body was being stored above ground in a crypt it was likely frozen so yeah, it wouldn't have decomposed, but I digress.

Since this lack of decomposition was noted it was naturally determined she must have been one of the undead. You see, there was a bit of a vampire panic happening around that time (take that witches, you have to share…